The Brookston Almanac

Hurricane Supplication Day (Virgin Islands)

Pioneer Day (Utah)
Festival of St. Eloi (French Basque)
National Tequila Day
Feast of the Trickster of Liberty
St. Boris’ Day (patron of Moscow, Russia)
Valencia Fair begins (Spain)
Bolivar Day (Ecuador, Venezuela)
Pop a Wheelie Day
Jilwalla Jinks’ Jamboree (Fairy)
St. Christina the Astonishing’s Day (patron of pyschiatrists)

Alexandre Dumas (1802)
Ernest Bloch
Amelia Earhart
Simon Bolivar
Ambrose Bierce
Pat Oliphant
Stephanie Adams (Pb 11/92)
Robert Hays
Dorothy Mays (Pb 7/79)
Peter Yates
Alphonse Mucha
Julie Krone
Michael Richards
Fred Law Olmstead Jr.
John D. MacDonald
Chris Sarandon
John Clayton
Lynda Carter
Karl Malone
Billy Taylor
Joe Barry Campbell
Peter Serkin
Willie Davis
Frank Wedekind
Henrik Pontoppidan
John Aniston
Bella Abzug
Kevin Butler
Bob Lilly
John Middleton Clayton
Alexander Jackson Davis
Dany Savlia
Ruth Buzzi
Marc Racicot
Carroll A. Campbell Jr.
Barry Bonds

John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution
1st Duplicating machine made
Bilbo found the ring (Hobbit)
James I crowned King of England
Patton took Palermo (WW II)
Detroit founded (1701)
1st plane crossed the English Channel
Mary Queen of Scots abdicated (1567)
Battle of Flowers
1st Public Opinion Poll taken (Delaware; 1824)
John Smith discovered Susquehana River
Capture of Gibralter by British from Spain (1704)
Peter Sellers died (1980)
1st Successful Insulin treatment given (1925)
Rotary-type printing press patented
Eskimo Chicken 1st hatched in captivity
Potsdam Conference ended (1945)
Jigme Singye Wangchuk became King of Bhutan (1973)
Spanish Falangist government set up by General Mola (1936)
Treaty of Lausanne signed by Turkey and Greece (1923)
Raiders’ Indian Reservation reached No. 1 (1971)
Absolutely Fabulous debuted in US (1994)
Utah settled by Brigham Young at Salt Lake City (1847)
Tennessee readmitted to the Union (1866)
Survivor’s Eye of the Tiger reached No. 1 (1982)
Disney’s The Black Cauldron premiered (1985)
Jeffrey Archer won libel suit against The Star (UK; 1987)
Marvin the Martian debuted in Warner Bros. cartoon (1948)
DC-3 Airliner over Montgomery, Alabama saw a UFO (1948)
Full Page Ad published in London Times advocating legalization of marijuana, signed by many famous people, including all 4 Beatles (1967)